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Meta thought: Substantially isolated environments may act as a Markov blanket for a specialized eco-niche in which the individual species are ill-adapted for life outside of that environment. Sort of.
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My original thought, though, was about less-isolated webs. Consider for example a set of species that are especially co-adapted to one another. Could the form a super-organism that is resilient to changes outside their sub-net, an analog to multicellular organisms?
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It's basically what evolution does in building a boundary around a network/system which results in that system's ability to isolate itself from perturbations (sufficiently for it to survive/propagate). It models the essence of organism + environment.
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